The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

I have been working in the immersive space since 2015 and my personal vision is to inspire and educate people to think and act in a socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable way. With other game engines already available, both on standalone (Unity, UE4) and web (Sumerian), why did you feel the need to create a new one?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. The open-sourced Watson Unity SDK can be found on GitHub. What is this thing, what does that do?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Over the last ten years, this premier XR event has proven to be a valuable source of education and insight for those interested in next-generation technology. Keynote speakers and educational sessions offer insight into these solutions’ impact on various industries, from real estate to healthcare.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

GDC March 20-24th, 2023, San Francisco The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an informative and educational event where attendees can learn all about the newest technologies influencing the gaming landscape.

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AR Insider

JULY 24, 2020

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. For a full library of indexed and educational media, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. Unity’s Tony Parisi reiterates that this capability is here today… we just need to make it scalable.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

AR software development kit (SDK) providers like Apple, Xreal, Niantic, 8 th Wall, Unreal, and Unity give developers the tools to make and distribute custom AR content that naturally drives retention and engagement with new interactive experiences to “wow” potential buyers. Although, this is quickly changing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

And we’re going to talk about education. So it’s an interesting time to revisit and relook at what does education look like in an exponential world of digital transformation. And it has made everybody sit back and go, “Whoa, how do we now deal with education?” But what are we really teaching about education? Alan: Hello.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

And we’re going to talk about education. So it’s an interesting time to revisit and relook at what does education look like in an exponential world of digital transformation. And it has made everybody sit back and go, “Whoa, how do we now deal with education?” But what are we really teaching about education? Alan: Hello.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. It has applications in training and educational use cases. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

And we’re going to talk about education. So it’s an interesting time to revisit and relook at what does education look like in an exponential world of digital transformation. And it has made everybody sit back and go, “Whoa, how do we now deal with education?” But what are we really teaching about education? Alan: Hello.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Amazon is opening its AR Beauty Salon. Unity developers will get this joke Funny link. You don’t even know how this made me happy!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

An ecosystem to create workshops and educational lessons inside VR , for a maximum of 50 attendees per room (but rooms can be cloned). So, I made a prototype with Unity and the Cosmos XR where I can actually take out a PC from an Amazon page and try it on my desk. It will be based on VirBELA; Vive Sessions.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It is also possible to create your custom spaces to use in Mesh either with a no-code editor or by using Unity to create more personalized and complex scenes. These glasses come at a time when Amazon is having problems in making Alexa stay relevant: new generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT are in fact taking its place.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Snap and Amazon partner to offer AR preview of shopping items. Mindport helps you in building your Unity VR experiences. Mindport is a very interesting plugin on the Unity Asset Store that lets you create your VR experiences in Unity in an easy way. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Watch the video.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 27, 2023

IoB connects AR and VR devices to cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our Unity plug-in is now live so users can easily add IoB to projects. The solution covers verticals such as healthcare, entertainment, education, and training, where customers can tap into a wealth of spatial data.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the educational district, I was able to enter the big virtual campus of the University of California and navigate all of it. Here we can see the same problem VR supermarkets have: people dream about shopping in VR like in real life, but at the end of the day , scrolling Amazon and buying stuff in 2D is much more efficient.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. In fact, developers using Unity and SteamVR start effectively standardizing this mixed reality capture method.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. Amazon and Tesla could be two outsider of the XR ecosystem instead. . “The farm has been plowed, the farm is now ready for seeds” , he adds.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

I can’t think about an AR-app that is actually popular : many have tried to make AR games, AR educational experiences, AR sports… but they all ended up being tech demos or gimmicks. There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla). WebAR will start to exploit its potential.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

Enhanced reality devices – especially AR — will be ubiquitous in another decade or so, and used in nearly every aspect of our lives and in nearly every industry, from automotive to medical care, education to neuroscience, engineering to shopping.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Its wizarding successor grossed $12M in its first month.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I've been a Unity user forever. Alan: And then they ask their tech teams and they're like, "does anybody know Unity?"

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Moreover, Stettmeier noted that Lenovo is taking an enterprise-first approach to developing XR solutions, meaning you cannot purchase the device via conventional means such as Amazon. Instead, a buyer must go through professional channels – “because we really want to make this an enterprise story,” Steinmeier said.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

Tony Parisi, Global Head of VR/AR, Unity Technologies. It is surprising not to see major players from Amazon, Facebook, Google or Valve. Confirmed speakers are as follows: Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP Virtual Reality, HTC. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox. Maureen Fan, CEO, Baobab Studios.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections. And that’s it for my predictions of VR in 2021!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Blogger Tom Ffiske, that writes on Virtual Perceptions, has decided to write a very good book about AR and VR technologies and it is becoming pretty popular on Amazon. This is a piece of great news to help the creation of educational content about heritage. This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity. Learn more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

Ericsson uses Omniverse to create digital twins of cities to decide where to place 5G towers and virtually fix problems before deploying crews on the ground. Here are a few more examples: Amazon has over 200 robotics facilities that handle millions of packages each day.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

But this time, Google has understood the educational potential of this framework, so instead of abandoning it, it is gifting it to the community, that can so carry it on. Image from Amazon). If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me! The hype is rising…. More info (Boneworks launch date) More info (Boneworks on Quest).

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. Alan: Oh, "Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation [and] Education Conference." And for our training products, they are a little bit more customized for each project. Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. Alan: Oh, "Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation [and] Education Conference." And for our training products, they are a little bit more customized for each project. Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Rori: I’d say, about two years ago, I think a lot of the time with with our clients was spent on educating people on what VR is, on what AR is. Rori: Well one is I think just educating themselves, familiarizing themselves with the experience. So one is just education/awareness/engagement.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Rori: I’d say, about two years ago, I think a lot of the time with with our clients was spent on educating people on what VR is, on what AR is. Rori: Well one is I think just educating themselves, familiarizing themselves with the experience. So one is just education/awareness/engagement.

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